am I a bad mommy?

[mhingher]

I have been to WDW many, many times as a child, and the trips continued as I got older. My daughter is only 20 months old, yet she's been to WDW 4 times already!

My husband and I just bought points at BLT with DVC, and we have some incentive points to use at Saratoga Springs by October... my husband doesn't love WDW like I do, and my AP expires in April, so my girlfriend and I are going for 4 nights in March... without my daughter. Please tell me I'm not the only one "leaving" their child/children at home for a trip to the house of the mouse????

 

[cogero]

as soon as my son is old enough for some one to watch him DH and I will be taking a trip to WDW.

So no you are not a Bad Mommy. You actually will come back more refreshed from the trip. Sometimes parents just need to get away for a bit and recharge.

 

[BenA81]

if your child was 4 or 5, yea I'd say that wouldn't be very nice to leave 'em behind, but your DD isn't quite old enough to remember AND she's already gone 4 times, so you going once w/o her is nothing to stress about.

 

[yrdlyprincess]

1st question- are you leaving him with someone that you trust/ur child trusts?
2nd- Are you able to leave your child w/ur child being upset

Hopefully you answered well to all those questions--so go go go go go go

No I'm just kidding- go and have a good time...my DH doens'tlove Disney as much as I do- but I don't mind, think of all those parents that have to go on business trips ALL the time ( think of it as a business trip to do research for the next time you go!


didn't answer the question--no you are not a bad mommy--I would be if I left my 8 & 4 yr old to go

 

[ilandrazdsw]

You are not a bad mommy!!! I am leaving my DS5 and DD3 with DH for 2 nights...I just WISH I was going to WDW instead of taking a stupid test.

Go and have fun. Like OP said it will give you a chance to refresh. Leave the guilty feeling til DD can give you a real guilt trip...then go anyway!

 

[Tiffany_MommyOf3]

Better to do it now instead of when shes old enough to know where you are haha. Really, we take trips down without kids or with 1 or 2 kids and leave others behind - we always make sure everyone goes equal amounts of time haha - but yeah, the kids are fine!!!

 

[angeleigh]

You are not a bad mommy. My first trip to Disney I left ds home with dh. It was just my girls and I and my sister and her two children. Ds was 11 months old and he had no idea what he was missing. Now today if I was to tell him I was taking the girls to "Mickey Mouse's House" and he and Daddy were going to stay home and have fun I think he would change the locks before I got home. Enjoy your trip.

 

[arielmomma]

Are you kidding? I'm envious! My husband and I really want to be able to take a short trip down next spring for our 10th anniversary, but we aren't sure that we have anyone to watch our kids. Go have fun and do not feel guilty! It sounds like your child will have many WDW vacations ahead of her!

 

[tzolkin]

1st question- are you leaving him with someone that you trust/ur child trusts?
2nd- Are you able to leave your child w/ur child being upset

I was assuming she's leaving the child home with her DH.

I wouldn't go to Disney without my kids, but that's because we're just planning our second vacation ever! (Neither of us went on a vacation when we were kids and we just took our first family vacation of our own last May.) If we could afford several trips I would be fine taking some "mommy time" and knowing that I would take the kids on a trip in the near future. If your DD has already been four times, you must go at least twice a year. Go and enjoy yourself!

 

[nickelsfamily]

You are not a bad mommy by any means!

I do know how you feel though. So far, I have been to WDW 17 times, my 18th time will be in 19 days woo-hooo! My boys who are now 8 and 3 have been many times. However, my youngest doesn't remember any of the trips.

My husband and I went for a weekend trip a couple of years ago, the boys were with grandparents. I just felt terrible about leaving them and knowing how badly my youngest wanted to go. He got over it and so did we once we got to the Grand Floridian (a place we would never have gone to with young children)

This time around the boys will be with us for 3 days, staying in ***, then grandparents will pick them up and DH and I will move on to CR to spend our anniversary for 4 days.

There will be many other trips to WDW (hopefully) that you will get to take your children. It's nice to have a weekend away for mommys since we never get a break! Go for it and enjoy!!

 

[Daytona99]

No, not at all. I'm going to WDW in 3 weeks for 2 days without DH or DS9. My DS is ok with the whole thing, as long as I bring him back "something really cool"

 

[liznboys]

Not a bad mommy at all!! That sounds like fun! I took a solo trip last year for two nights, and I also met up with friends down there. It was so fun and so good for me! Enjoy yourself!!

Congrats on purchasing BLT, it looks like it's going to be GREAT!!! Enjoy SSR too, we love it there.

 

[mejkjj97]

not a bad mom at all.

My DH and I took a trip to the World when our DD was 11 months old. We figured it would be one of the last times we could do it for a while. It was great and a need break. We went for 5 days which was plenty long without me going nuts and miss her too much.
It was nice to go away but was great to come back.

 

[Totally Tink]

I went on 2 trips with girlfriends and left DH and DS at home. They also went once without me due to a trip we had scheduled and me getting a new job. I say go for it!

 

[bonybroad]

My husband and I just went for our 10th anniversary without the kids.
They are 5 and 7. They enjoyed staying with my mom, we called twice a day, and they knew they would get presents.
Bribery does work

 

[jpeka65844]

Totally not a bad mommy. We left DS who was 2 at the time home for our December trip last year. We brought him this year, though. He's far more into Santa, stuff like that now....

We're going to Disneyland in July with some friends who live in CA and not taking DS. I feel a little guilty about that. But our DS would be the only child; the others don't have kids. My husband assures me we'll go back and take the kids. It's easy to say that about WDW where we're DVC members, not so much about DL.

So, long story short (too late), you are NOT a bad mommy! Grown up time at WDW is awesome!

 

[disney_family_1247]

Sorry, but I would never leave a small child behind while I went to DISNEY WORLD.

 

[BABY_EINSTEIN'S_MOM]

There are definitely instances that I would consider doing this. We are taking the kids on a 2 week Disney trip this June. Then dh told me he was interested in running the Jan 2010 Disney marathon.

Well,obviously if we drive down for 13 hours and basically sleep, run,eat, walk the parks a tiny bit, sleep,eat and then leave...that would not be a good trip for the kids!They would be exhausted, not get any sleep(marathon officially starts at 5:50a.m. and you have to be up much sooner!)

Mine would be staying with grandma who they adore and getting gifts upon their return! I also won't feel guilty when we go because they would have just been for 2 weeks about 6 months before! So, saying that, if they hadn't been for years, then I would at least have to take them on a trip before we went. So, anyway, just wanted to give more examples of reasons why someone would leave the kiddos.